Bay Pinto Horse
Bay Pinto Horse
Equus caballus
Mammalia
COMMON

Stats

Lifespan
25-30 yrs
Size
Large
Diet
Herbivore
Activity
Diurnal
Social
Herd
Biome
Temperate grassland
Range
Central Asia
Movement
Running
Breeding
Live Birth
Defense
Speed
Status
Common

About

A horse with a reddish-brown bay coat broken up by large patches of white, a pattern created by spotting genes like tobiano or overo layered over the base bay coloring. No two pinto horses share the same pattern, since the white patches are essentially unique markings.

Life cycle

  1. 1.
    newborn foal
    A foal stands and nurses within an hour of birth, long-legged and unsteady at the herd's edge.
  2. 2.
    juvenile
    A weaned juvenile grazes with the herd, develops its adult coat, and tests its speed.
  3. 3.
    adult
    Fully grown and at full speed.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Mammalia
Order
Perissodactyla
Family
Equidae
Genus
Equus
Species
Equus caballus